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fartington@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
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  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online.

    The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root said that users’ images included precise geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.”

    “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

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      I’m going to say you shouldn’t be shocked that people like this aren’t the most insightful or analytical minds.

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        Or that the site owners aren’t just two bit grifters

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      i heard someone looked at thier profiles, something tells me they are all mcpoyles.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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      They literally just typed whitedate.net/download-all-users/ into the browser and the website willingly gave them a button to download all users.

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    I will call it censorship, how we know who is nazi whiteout allowing them express themselves ? Let them speak so we can know !

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      Free speech absolutism is bullshit. It only empowers bigots.

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        I want to know all the bigots !

    • _g_be@lemmy.world
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      The irony of tolerating intolerant people to exist openly is that it actually erodes tolerance overall

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        yesssss !!! bring all the evil from people so we can name them !!!

  • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Talk link?

    Edit: here it is

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    I need more hackers doing this. Great work.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    Don’t just stop at 3, there are so many more shitheads still out there.

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    I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

    Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

    Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

    Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

    So many things could go wrong.

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      bah, you just run the script that shows an unconditional [x] done. you can check the details later!

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        That’s basically what I thought when I saw this - there’s no way anything is happening that quickly, this is just outputting “done!” over and over.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    Based

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    This implies they could have done it earlier…

    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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      Sometimes the theatrics of shutting down a nazi site is just as important as the actual shutting down of a nazi site.

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        Punching a nazi in the crowded streets so much better than in the alley. Tell them we don’t want them here, period.

        “This is cyberterrorism.” Letting those sites do their thing without cracking down on them… I agree.

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      My guess is they started the site in the first place.

      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Well that’s why you’re an idiot

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        Well that’s a really stupid guess

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    Not that I’m against but isn’t this illegal? Probably shouldn’t showcase it publicly

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      Yeah she probably should have worn a mask and used a baller pseudonym like “Root”

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        *Martha Root

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          Babe Root

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      Yes, it’s illegal, the law absolutely would defend nazis, which is why it does not deserve our respect. Anyone who publicly breaks the law to do a good thing is a hero and deserves our respect.

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    the title of the post and the thumbnail are bringing me a lot of joy right now

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdz_R-LKNY

    Link to the Talk. Name is “39C3 - The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber”

    The Talk is in german but youtubes subtitles are pretty good

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      No need to use YouTube. Their own website has the whole talk dubbed into English, among other language options.

      https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber

      • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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        Dubs are for scrubs.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          Tell that to the Hellsing, Ghost Stories,vand Black Lagoon dubs profligate. Though all jokes aside dub vs sub really comes down to the quality of the dub.

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            I watched black lagoon on sub. What was the draw? Am I missing the joke and it was terrible?

            • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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              Black lagoon legit just has a really good dub, same with Hellsing both the original anime and OVA. No the joke is ghost stories which is sitting somewhere alongside Dragon Ball Abridged and Warhammer 40k TTS in its shitpost nature.

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                I never considered the abridged as actual dubs, just satire. That puts sword art abridged as my favorite.

                • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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                  No no no you misunderstood, the Ghost Stories dub is official. It is an official dub that is on the same tier of shitpost as DBZA or SAO abridged.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Official dubs over ai subs.

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        I watched this yesterday and missed the last 5 minutes because I thought it’s Q&A.

        FWIW, she said something about “playback” and a “demo” before she started “the hacking”, which also looks like a fun script, no more. I’m not sure she’s actually live-deleting websites there.

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          You do know that it can be automated though, right? If you have full control of someone’s infrastructure, the quickest way to delete all of it is through a script.

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          To address your first edit, yes, it’s a script, and yes, it did delete the site and the backups, as confirmed by the site creator. You can browse the data extracted on https://okstupid.lol/

          This wasn’t “just a fun script”. The site, backups, and infrastructure were actually deleted.

          Did you read the article, like at all? It would have told you the same thing:

          As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

          The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.

          “They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.

          The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.

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        How do you dub it?

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          ai probably

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            God damn lemmings are exhausting

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              People are exhausting. The key is to just take a step back when answering every question gets to be too much. There are just so many of us that these kind of questions popping up is just a numbers game. Unless you are heavily invested, it’s fine to let someone else get it.

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                ?

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            Nope

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            Real people, live!

        • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
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          The gearwheel on the bottom right has options for language and resolution.

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    What a fucking savage

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    Red Power Ranger: Red Power!

    Blue Power Ranger: Blue Power!

    White Power Ranger: Ahh no, fuck this shit… And who deleted my website?

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      Power Falcons!

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mOyE_l80D4Y

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        Ok first of all, I don’t like how you’re saying Black Falcon!

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    I love this.

    Also love this comments section.

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    how and why did I start reading xitler messages

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Oh, it gets way worse in those comments

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      Hoffmann and Fuchs are just common German names and are no indicator for being jewish. But yes, it obviously has to be the jews fault.

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        They were having a “conversation” and all of a sudden the Jews showed up? What?! Lol fuckin Nazis

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      “Info sec is full of Jews”

      What the hell does this even mean?

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      If you’re not on Twitter, no clue.

      If you’re on Twitter, what the actual fuck

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      infosec is full of jews

      lol if he thinks the jews have infiltrated wait till he finds out how deep the gay atheist conspiracy goes

      dAS8iLBS6bl2bvE.jpg

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        gaytheist*

        • donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I love that band!

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      Reggie: Are they going to hack them to?

      Would it bother you if you Nazis are being singled out?

      Amnesiac: They hate us cause they ain’t us.

      No, jack, we hate you because you’re Nazis.

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Insider info: the worst jews, the jewiest of them, are hiding in your local AI datacenters

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        But they’re invisible, so don’t waste your time looking for them.

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          The files are in the computer?

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            “Which is funny cause the computer is the devil” -Big D

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